trump. in the 1950's, trump lived in a trump's-owned -- woody guthrie trump-owned building in brooklyn. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. "the new york times" expose, the reporters referenced several reporters who did groundbreaking work on trump's finances. one of them was the late wayne barrett who wrote the book "trump: the deals and the downfall." he appeared on [captioning made possible by democracy now!] in 2016 and said fred trump's financial support of donald trump was "unbelievably crucial in donald's rise to prominence. >> be opened his first office in manhattan, the rent was paid by his father's company out here on avenue the and brooklyn. everything that he did, whether be the grand hyatt, for example, to get the financing, he got the financing from two banks that his father had used, used his father's relationship banker. and the father had to sign the financing agreements. they're not going to get a 30 milli

and three times visited the elder trump at trump tower. on one visit not long before donald trump declared his candidacy. goldstone says trump was there listening to a rap song. he said look 90 million views, a rapper called mac miller who recently passed away has recorded a song. had 90 million youtube views and it's about me. >> and i said to him, maybe do you think you should listen to the words and what they're saying about you perhaps? just an idea. ♪ all this money, ain't that [ bleep ] ♪ >> and he went it doesn't matter, 90 million views. the third time we went he said to emin, maybe next time i see you i'll be hosting you at the white house. >> before there was trump in the white house, there was trump the candidate. and the next time goldstone set foot in trump tower would be when he arrived for the meeting. coming up -- >> i get a phone call and he said to me initially, i'd like you to set up a meeting with the trumps. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job from any one else. why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase reli

and three times visited the elder trump at trump tower. on one visit not long before donald trump declared his candidacy. goldstone says trump was there listening to a rap song. he said look 90 million views, a rapper called mac miller who recently passed away has recorded a song. had 90 million youtube views and it's about me. >> and i said to him, maybe do you think you should listen to the words and what they're saying about you perhaps? just an idea. ♪ all this money, ain't that [ bleep ] ♪ >> and he went it doesn't matter, 90 million views. the third time we went he said to emin, maybe next time i see you i'll be hosting you at the white house. >> before there was trump in the white house, there was trump the candidate. and the next time goldstone set foot in trump tower would be when he arrived for the meeting. coming up -- >> i get a phone call and he said to me initially, i'd like you to set up a meeting with the trumps. better. actually, it's bulkier. always discreet doesn't need all that bulk to protect. because it's made dif

>> trump: okay. that's just a figure of speech. >> stahl: just like-- no, it's like an embrace. >> trump: it-- well, let it be an embrace. let it be whatever it is to get the job done. >> stahl: yeah, but he's a bad guy. >> trump: look. let it be whatever it is. i get along with him really well. i have a good energy with him. i have a good chemistry with him. look at the horrible threats that were made. no more threats. no more threats. >> stahl: china. >> trump: i get along with him. it's very important. china, let's go. >> stahl: i'm skipping across the world here. you've slapped a lot of tariffs on them-- >> trump: $250 billion. >> stahl: going to do more? >> trump: might. might. >> stahl: round three? >> trump: they want to negotiate, lesley. they want to negotiate. >> stahl: are you ready? >> trump: look. >> stahl: are you ready to-- >> trump: i have a great chemistry also with president xi of china. i don't know that that's necessarily going to continue. i told president xi, we cannot continue

he's been insulted by trump. he's, he's decided that that's it. >> narrator: in the west wing, all hell broke loose. >> don mcgahn, the legal counsel, bursts into reince priebus' office and says, "we've got trouble. not only do we have a special counsel appointed, but jeff sessions has just resigned." priebus says, "you're kidding me." heiebus goes running down the staircase intoest wing parking lot. >> finds sessions in his car preparing to lea, and he bangs on the door. "you got to come out. you got to come back in. you can't leave this w you can't just blow up like this." and priebus essentially almost has to drag him back up into the west wing, where vice president pence and steve bannon then come in and joinpr bus and talk sessions off the ledge. >> it's clear that the mueller ininvestigation is just ge started. we're going to head to washington, where the e house... >> narrator: across town, in an undisclosed secure location, the new special counsel, robert s. mueller iii, was just getting started. >> wheyo

trump and how much money fred trump had given donald trump, there's just so much more than anybody thought. and then as we started to look at the money, then we realized all these tax schemes were behind it. just this incredible reporting journey of one revelation after another. sometimes you do these projects and you spend weeks where you're sort of thinking, we're at the end of the road. we never, ever had two or three days where we thought okay, we're running out here. we had so many roads to go down, and there is even more left. like, it was just an incredible, just discovery, and once we got these documents, it just opened up. it was an alice in wonderland moment for us where we were just like, wow. >> and going at it through that route that you're describing with the fred trump empire and the surprises and donald trump's finances around the timing of that sale and stuff, clearly that led you to public facing documents that were -- you could get to through the fred trump business empire. >> well, the great thing about real estate is public documents. this is where we started, and then

if donald trump, jr. and jared kushner took this meeting innocently and ignorantly and sort of stepped into -- you know, it's possible. but mr. manafort, he would have clearly known what the russians were up to. >> two nights before the meeting on june 7th, trump greeted supporters with what now sounds like a curious promise. >> we're going to be discussing all the things that have taken place with the clintons. i think you're going to find it very informative and very, very interesting. >> we just don't know if the speech donald trump made was a coincidence or not. and so the timing seems awfully strange. >> for all the attention the trump tower meeting would later get, goldstone says at the time he hardly gave it a second thought. >> i didn't care about a meeting. it sounds bad, but it's true. i didn't care. i wanted my client to be happy. that's always my ultimate goal. >>> coming up -- >> so tell us what happened. was the dirt on the democratic party and hillary clinton forthcoming? n the democratic p

trump: right. ms. chinn: and the work that you've done with secretary perdue to get many out into our rural communities, we really appreciate the reverse-path auction through the fcc. missouri was awarded $254 million of that. it's going to connect 95,000 homes to high-speed internet. and we just really appreciate it. missourians appreciate what you're doing on their behalf to make their rural communities vibrant again, and to help the agriculture industry pass on to that next generation of farmers and ranchers. pres. trump: great. well, it's my honor. and you have a great race going on out there. ms. chinn: we do. pres. trump: and that will make a big difference. a very positive difference, the outcome. i won't say it because i'm not a political person, so i won't discuss that. [laughter] i won't discuss that in front of the press, okay? go ahead. how about yourself? ms. cundiff: that's funny. so missouri is well represented here. again, i'm from st. charles, missouri, representing the community banki

trump hired him. >> the family and the trump organization and his father, fred trump, had been accused of racism in their housing practices. >> trump's regular lawyers, the ordinary kinds of lawyers, tell him, "settle it. just move on, do the right thing." and he asks roy cohn about it. and roy cohn says, "don't settle it. fight, fight, fight. you t to fight." and that becomes kind of his early credo and his approach, which is, "even if you're in the wrong, fight." >> we expect to be successful io urt. we're not doing this for y y other reason. >> narrator: theuntersued the u.s. government for $100 million. in court filings, cohn comred the department of justice to the nazis, alleging "gestapo-like" tactics. >> in a pattern we can recognize from trump's behavior to this day, attacking the accusers, attacking, indeed, thece department, as a way to sort of throw a smokescreen around the original crime. >> narrator: cohn's suit against the justice department was thrown out, trump forced t settle. they had lost. but in t press, trump and cohn declared victory. >> it was justike it didn't m

trump. they say the attention today should be focused on the victims of saturday's anti semitic massacre. there are those who want president trump to be there. this all comes as the first funerals are being held today. among those being laid to rest, brothers david and cecil rosenthal and dr. jerry rabinowitz. we're on the ground in pittsburgh where apparently a protest has sprung up. miguel, how are the pittsburghers you're talking to -- how do they feel about the president's visit? >> reporter: look, jake, i have not seen a person with a dry eye in this neighborhood all day. people walking their dogs, moving around the neighborhood, and now this. that sadness, that absolute shock at what has happened has turned into anger with news of the president's visit. there are several hundred people here at this protest getting ready to march, just as the president is expected to land in pittsburgh and move around the city. there is a second protest in the neighborhood. president donald trump in thi

because he worked for donald trump, even though he said should trump run was independent of donald trump. >> there 2011, they ruled in cohen's favor, a win, another way of proving his loyalty. >> the way he initially described it to me was a father-son relationship, and when i asked him, why he has blind loyalty, he always threw the question back to me, would you do this for your father? >> at the end of the day, only people donald trump really considered family, anyone who considers themself to be almost a trump family member should really think about it. >> he fought for his boss by aggressively attacking donald trump's enemies, real or perceived. >> a war of words between a beauty queen and organizers of the miss usa pageant. rigged. just after the 2012 miss usa pageant, they claimed finalists were predetermined. >> i want the truth to be made known. >> he spoke with cohen's about his daughter's claims, and he said cohen is belligerent. >> it's absolutely terrifying to get you on the phone and intimidate you, but part of what a lawyer in that position is supposed to do is intimidating

trump. right? and the irony is that story really comes from for a lot of voters what they learned about the president on "the apprentice" which is actually sort of -- it is reality television, and it's quite fictitious. so now you have actual reality bumping up with the fiction of reality tv. and so that is huge and cannot be overstated. at the same time, again, what we'll have to wait and see, this literally just broke, one thing that struck me especially about the president's core group of supporters, the president has often been able to say to things like making products overseas that otherwise would be unacceptab unacceptable, wouldn't you have done the same thing? wouldn't you, too, have avoid e taxes if you could? that's smart business. we don't know what his response will be. on one hand, you're right, it total he undercuts the myth of president trump, dealmaker, the businessman. on the other hand, it will be interesting to see if the president can find a way to talk his way out of th

and he was donald trump really before donald trump. he focused on illegal immigration as an issue and took it national really. and he was one of the first to endorse trump. the question will be whether trump's coattails are long enough to pull him over in the senate race against bob casey. it looks like they're not at the moment. >> when you talk to trump voters for your book and i guess it was several months ago you were last able to check in with them for the book. of the 12 in your focus group only one trump voter was in doubt about donald trump at this point. >> right. i checked in with them much more recently even after the book closed, i've been in touch with them informally. and that number still holds. of the 12 i profiled, 11 say that if the election were to be held -- the 2020 election were to be held tomorrow they would enthusiastically vote for trump. only one has slipped into the undecided, as you mentioned. i guess the question becomes both for the midterms and 2020 is what is the ceiling on trump's base. >> is it a ceili

trump: nice man. the casualties of the democrats open border crusade are really a lot and far more than anyone would know of innocent american families and lives. democrat immigration policies allow poisonous drugs and ms 13 killers to pour into our country. these are not people that you don't want to have ice around. ice goes into the nests like it is a day in the office. even tough guys here, you don't want to do it. she has done it, she said. if you did it, you didn't do it by choice. she said, no i didn't. what is this story all about? come on up your -- no, i'm kidding. sanctuary cities and this is what happens, they release violent predators out of jail and straight into your communities, and then they are protected. they are protected people. a democrat victory in november would be a bright, flashing invitation to every human trafficker, drug trafficker -- think of it. human trafficking is the highest it has ever been in the history of this world. that is because of the internet. you wouldn't t

. >> president trump, yeah. and the idea that he's already making excuses before the facts are known, it's typical but it hurts us internationally. >> ann. >> well, there is quite a lot there. certainly the saudi context is a little different than some of trump's other dalliances shall we say with autocrats, putin and kim, principally because republican and democratic administrations before his have been accused of coddling the saudis who do produce an enormous share of the world's oil, have an enormous share of the world's oil reserves and spread their money wide and wisely if their goal is to keep other governments accountable to them or in their debt. but what trump is doing here i think is really interesting. you saw him shift today. you played some of it earlier from a kind of a shrug no one really know what is happened, we have to wait and see, who know, it looks bad to today saying that he believes jamal khashoggi is dead and that there need to be some consequences for that the consequences go directly to

there's a lot that we don't know about president trump than donald trump candidate trump in his history with money. so that was really the beginning of us deciding, let's dig deeper. let's try to pull back as many layers of this onion as we can. >> shepard: at one point during the article, you write, "over time as donald trump careened from one financial disaster to the next, his father found ways to give him more money. even in 1990, mr. trump tried to have his father's will rewritten in a way that fred trump alarmed and angered and could result in his empire to be used to bail out his son's failing businesses." >> that was a huge surprising find for us. was what we were seeing is that fred trump through, you know, starting when donald trump was 3 years old and moving forward had been endlessly creative in coming up with new ways to get money into donald trump's pocket. he didn't pay him to be like on his payroll, but he paid him to be his purchasing agent, a consultant. he gave him the laundry revenue from the buildings. even after this incredible generosity from fred trump to donald

trump is entitled to full legal fees. at fox news, great, now i can go after horse face and her third-rate laywyer in the great state of texas. she'll confirm the letter she signed. she knows nothing about me. a total con." horse face. the president of the united states called a woman with whom he had an alleged sexual relationship horse face. unfortunately it's the kind of insult, personal, childish and mean, that people have become so accustom to with this president that it barely registered as news but it renders the first lady's "be best" campaign, anti-bullying effort, pointless and satirical and ivanka's trump stated mission of being an ambassador for women a pointless joke. how could these women or any woman in the white house pretend they work for anyone other than a very loud mouthed and very thin skinned bully? it even shows bashi ining women alleged victim of a sexual assault, is more than a quirk to trump's personality. it's a political strategy he thinks is a winner. >> professor blasey ford got before the se

cohen saying he did so as trump's direction. trump denied having affairs with either women. the public feud between cohen and trump a drastic 180 from the previously ironclad relationship. >> i'll do anything to protect mr. trump. i am obviously loyal and very dedicated to mr. trump. >> reporter: the president defending his former attorney as recently as april after the fbi raided cohen's manhattan home, hotel room, and office. >> i just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys. good man. and it's a disgraceful situation. it's a total witch hunt. i said that is now in a whole new level of unfairness. >> reporter: but as cohen fell deeper into legal trouble, trump began changing his tune. >> mr. president -- >> look, i did nothing wrong. this stuff would have come out a long time ago. i did nothing wrong. >> is he still your friend? >> i haven't spoken to him in a long time. >> reporter: as he awaits sentencing in december, according to his lawyers he is speaking to investigators, including from special counsel robert mueller's office. likely an a

trump is trump. he makes his own decisions. >> what does he say when he calls you? what do you talk about? >> what's that? >> what do you talk about? >> i've talked to him about -- i did "morning joe" a couple days in a row. he called me afterwards to talk about charlie sykes, believe it or not. he's called me about bill shine. bill shine is a friend of mine. he says, what are we doing here? and i gave shine resounding endorseme endorsements. saying the guy is wonderful for the country and for the administration. >> before he got hired or after? >> this was after. >> listen, eric, people should know that you and i have conversations like this before, right? >> yes. >> not on television. what would you have done if the former president would not come on fox news at all, and the former president had endorsed my book or jake tapper's book or anderson's book or, i don't know, rachel maddow's. i'm throwing out people that he won't come on as president. what do you think you would have done and other fox news hosts and conservatives media, what do you think would have hap

only one thing, letting donald trump and men like donald trump get away with everything. joining us is former deputy assistant attorney general elliot williams. elliot, we can put back up that ad. this says bring back the death penalty. bring back our police just to show that donald trump is consistent over time. he hasn't changed at all. he made a statement way late. fast forward to october of 2016. this was donald trump's statement about the central park five. this is him as a presidential candidate. they admitted they were guilty. the fact that the case was settled with so much evidence against them was outrageous. that is donald trump still saying the central park five were still guilty. so donald trump and due process really haven't met. >> i know exonerated. but i think they got a $41 million settlement. so the courts have blessed their position on this. so there are all kinds of inconsistencies with how the president of united states treats due process and people's entitlement of due process. immigration, the entire immigration policy of this administration has bee

trump do not. esther trump's grandfather -- mr. trump's grandfather am a from what i understand, he was on a run from the german prescription into the army. his grandmother was an impoverished scottish refugee looking for a better life in new york. you would expect these people to have a little more compassion, little more realization that immigrants are this good for country and have been good for this country. instead, they've turned this poisonous vilification of people and dehumanizing them. this feeds into the crazy coconspiracy theories that leadd people, these unhinged people to act outand sayoc their own personal inadequacies by being something important through violence. amy: we're going to have to go to break -- >> it is an old story. amy: we're going to go to break and come back to this discussion, dr. david glosser, uncle of stephen miller, speaking to us from philadelphia. he is former faculty member at boboston university scschool of medicine and jeffeferson medical cocollege. hias.a volunteer for jews back in a momom

the news tonight, as it will be through midterm election night itself, is trump-trump-trump, that's the way he wants it. the question is, how will voters react? calculated, there's no such thing as overexposure, trump's apparent goal now is to dominate the national news, signalling that for better or worse, come november, it's all about trump. in the first 15 days of october, catch this. the president has held eight rallies. that's one more than one every other nate, conducted six major interviews and made him available to answer questions on at least 20 other occasions. and while the president is traditionally opted for favorable platforms like fox, to spread his message, he ventured outside his comfort zone last night appearing on "60 minutes." showing he can stand up to tough questions from a real journalist, leslie stahl. here's how trump, when challenged, declined to single out the russians for their 2016 attack on the integrity of our elections. >> do you believe that the russians interfered in the 2016 campaign -- election? >> they meddled, but i think china meddled, too -- >> wh

nor does donald trump. but there's so much evidence that michael cohen was a fixer for donald trump and so many accusations around payoffs related to donald trump including that tape recording if you remember about karen mcdougal. >> that lanny davis played. >> that lanny davis played. certainly there's a lot of indication that this was the relationship between donald trump and michael cohen. what stands up in court is a different story, but we know michael cohen has been talking to investigators. >> as a former fed you know what you feds can do to people. eli stokols, can trump distance himself any more from cohen? has obviously just decided he's going to weaponize this witness. >> yeah, he's decided this is the response to all of the investigations, to fight these legal battles in the court of public opinion and to just trash everybody who is coming after him, and now that includes michael cohen. as maya said, the credibility of both these guys is not that great, but if you just take what the president sa

president trump, including an inflatable trump baby blimp - and if the british disliked trump before he arrived, his visits only made things worse. - the president breached british protocol by publicly disclosing the details of a conversation he had with queen elizabeth. - he broke royal protocol by walking in front of the queen, but she quickly stepped forward to correct the error. - he also today had tea with the queen. he did keep her waiting for ten minutes. - video recorded the very punctual 92-year-old queen checking her watch prior to the president's arrival. - good lord. is there--is there any rule he didn't break? he's like, "president trump in hot water after pushing the queen into the royal swimming pool." for more on trump's u.k. visit, we're joined by an actual british person, gina yashere, everybody. [cheers and applause] gina, in the u.s.-- in the u.s., trump's u.k. visit seemed to not go so well, but as a british person, what do you think? - it was an unmitigated disaster, trevor. this cockwomble--yeah, that's what i called him-- he came--came to our country and insul

president trump: yes. because our justice department and fbi played right into their hands with the stupid investigation or whatever you call it. people say i'm not under investigation. i'm not a target of this investigation which nobody likes to say. but it played into their hand. if they want to sow chaos. they got it for nothing. we did it to ourselves. the chaos, the stupid chaos. it hasn't been talked about for a long time because people don't believe it. who is going to believe i call russia to give me help. and everyone does say, richard bird, they asked him, he's the head of the senate intelligence. they asked, did you see collusion in he says no, i didn't see collusion. but he said there was no collusion. as you know, the house, devin nunes, they came out with a ruling there was no collusion. but richard bird, they asked during the bloods in north and south carolina. they said what about this committee? he said we have found no collusion. trish: collusion aside. the concern is putin and the folks

donald trump and donald trump jr. are coming to texas. >> betow has to be pretty happy. he will help the congressional candidates. this may help him raise money, too. people will watch that trump junior is coming and they'll give more money to him. >> thanks one and all for being here. how are a extinguished yale alum and fraternity connected to a cartoon about president trump? we'll tell you after this. so you get what you want, without paying for things you don't. number 6. i know. where do i put it? in my belly. (vo) one family. different unlimited plans. starting at $40 per line on the network you deserve. traffic and roads... a mess, honestlyrents going up,le. friends and family moving out of state, millions of californians live near or below the poverty line. politicians like gavin newsom talk about change, but they've done nothing. sky-high gas and food prices. homelessness. gavin newsom, it happened on your watch. so, yeah. it is time for a change. time for someone new. >>> some of the most biting criticism of

we know donald trump now admits to dictating a false statement about that meeting to donald trump jr. we know that after he was told that russia was interfering in the election in mid-august 2016, he still went out and lied and said, it's a hoax, there's no reason to believe this. so you can't take anything they say. it sounds hyperbolic but you can't say anything they say at face value because they have this long history, present and in the past, of lying and doing things that are either fraudulent, and as the "times" put it, outright criminal. >> so what you're digging into is what the past tells us about what they may be reaping or what's coming. you wanted a line, i'll give you injury garcia. if you plant ice, you're going to harvest wind. >> okay, i'll give you a box of rain for that. >> phil lesh, right? >> that's the grateful dead too. >> phil lesh grateful dead, he didn't have any songs. interesting that you're a phil lesh fan. >> celebrate with a bottle of ripple. >> wow. >> there's a lot we can trade back. >> we'll call katy tur, do a full grateful dead reunion -- >> no, no,

trump: right? [applause] together we have made extraordinary progress, but we are just getting started. if you vote to elect republican house and republican senate, we will continue to cut your taxes, cut your regulation, and raise your incomes very substantially. [applause] pres. trump: we, unlike the democrats, will protect medicare and social security. remember what i said during the debate. we will protect them. we will defend your second amendment and protect your right to free speech and religious liberty. [applause] pres. trump: with your help, mitch mcconnell, rand paul, and all of the people that work so well with us will continue to confirm incredible pro constitution judges, not radical far left judges who will rewrite your constitution, and replace your kentucky values. not going to happen. 84 judges, think of that, a record. we actually have a lot to go. 84 judges approved. what a difference. finish, maybe 50% of the court. we will fully secure the border, we will pass case law, stop s

i think donald trump gets that. he changed the towels out because he wanted them to be softer, because they weren't as soft as the towels that were on his trump plane. >> well, towels and thread count, those are important things. >> it's air fun

>> donald trump had two choices. either he comes out and says, yes, i had the affair, yes, i directed the payment, or he calls michael cohen a liar. those are really the only two choices. >> it sounds pretty clear. >> it's pretty clear, because michael cohen is either telling the truth or he's not. i don't know if donald trump had much of a choice. the whole saga here starts with, in january, michael cohen saying, "didn't happen." by february he's saying "wasn't illegal." then by april trump is saying, "i didn't make any payments. you have to talk to my personal lawyer michael cohen." by may you have giuliani on his first day on the job actually i am reply -- implicating the personal finance plan saying it wasn't legal. the whole story is muddled from beginning to end. michael cohen doesn't come out looking like the most credible person. nor does donald trump, but there is so much evidence that michael cohen was a fixer for donald trump and so many accusations related to playoffs, including that recording, if you rem

there are tax returns of trump companies, trump partnerships, trump trusts. fred trump's estate tax returns is in the building right now. it's incredible that we have it. and that opened a door to understanding a huge transfer of wealth that happened and gave us so much more information to be able to understand the tax games that were played. and then once you sort of pull this string, the whole thing unraveled. >> a look there at showtime's new documentary that follows the team of "new york times" investigative reporters as they uncovered the information that led to the exclusive report about trump's taxes. the film debuts this sunday night and we're going to have much more from the explosive report straight ahead. but, joe, you have something else on your mind right now, apparently. >> i do this morning. willie, we've been ripped off again. >> what? no, you haven't. >> how many times have people taken our experiments and used them to win nobel prizes. >> did they do it again this year? >> they did it again this year. >> come on. >> professors claiming they

trump represents trump. and so even though we've had unified government for the past almost two years, that's a republican senate, republican congress and a republican presidency, at the end of the day, the only person trump really cares about is himself. so he's saying if you all don't win, that's actually not my problem. and so now we're going to saturday seeing some republicans in particular districts saying, well, actually, it is our problem. aren't we a collective? and that's not how trump views his presidency. that's not how he views the party either. >> i think he's actually both right and wrong. so he's wrong in the sense that, you know, many, many voters who are mobilized and enthusiastic see him and the republican party as one and the same. he's tied to the party, but where he is right is that voters who are going to turn out and probably shift the politics in the house in particular in terms of the democrats, they're not turning out as just some knee-jerk reaction to him. they're turning out aroun

does this make people decide to support trump, not to support trump? i'm skeptical. i've gotten very skeptical that pretty much anything can do that. >> you know what? on some level, move the needle or not, it doesn't matter. the truth coming out in this exhaustive reporting is important enough. rob, how much work did it take, would it take to avoid taxes like this, to engage in these tax schemes? laid out in here, that are confusing to the layman. >> well, first off, you're talking about schemes. a lot of this is just standard tax planning for people with high net worth. >> yeah. >> and some of the things that happened that are perfectly legal under estate tax look awfully weird to people that weren't tax lawyers. and you're seeing that with some of the trusts and some of the valuations that are mentioned in the piece. there's definitely a lot of work, a lot of lawyers, accountants, valuation experts that, you know, worked on this. and the irs audited from what i understand. >> yeah. there is that element of it. harry, i want to look at the numbers again because the

act like trump. just say, act like trump. >> look, there are a lot of -- >> there we go. talk about the embassy movement. >> you want to answer for me? i'm good with t. >> i have the republican answer. we moved the embassy. >> every human being has virtue and vices. donald trump has great virtues for republicans and conservatives who feel like we lose a lot of cultural battles and size and scope of government. then he has the vices which is he says things in politics that offend people. sometimes he's over the line with some of his comments. i think actually the voters kind of get that. he fights so hard sometimes, he fights a little too much. and at the they'd like maybe -- even his own supporters once in a while want him to say he's winning. he's doing pretty well. the economy is doing great. >> i thought the question was his behavior. do you like it? >> i do. >> you do like his behavior? >> i do like his behavior. >> really? wow. >> there is much to donald trump i love moore kids to emulate, including the fact when he -- >> let's start with this. he says some things th

president trump: i appreciate it. thank you very much. >> i wanted to say thank you for everything you have done. i know you and the vice president worked really hard, and all these people, and it was really hard, like, my dad being gone, so thank you for bringing him back. president trump: well, you have got great parents, and it's terrific. we will close it out with you and we are so happy. james lankford, go ahead please. sen. lankford: thank you, mr. president. you have faced personal risk to yourself, and this process has been awe-inspiring for many of us to watch as well. we are incredibly grateful for you to be home and we look forward to having a celebration day like this for other americans from turkey who need to come home as well, to be able to finish that out. we look forward to getting those individuals resolved as well and back home. and today we are just grateful after two very long years for you to be home. i look forward to hearing your stories about driving through drive-through zen getting a hamburg

all praise donald trump. donald trump is smart, he's strong, he's somebody who knows what he's doing. brett kavanaugh in his supreme court nomination speech, odd that that even happened, said it was the greatest honor of my life that donald trump bestowed this on me. these are all people who say nice things about him. he's very simple in that way. you say nice things about him, he says nice things about you. doesn't ov don't overthink it. >> coming up, tax particulcticsn projects failed. >> and now former trump lawyer michael cohen is planning to go after the president politically. what cnn is learning about his plan to hit the campaign trail with democrats. and after roseanne barr's departure, we finally now how the network wrote her off. s on , every day... not just "airline purchases." (loud) holy moley that's a lot of miles!!! shhhhh! what's in your wallet? - shhhhh! - where are mom and dad? 'saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico! goin' up the country. love mom and dad' i'm takin' a nap. dude, yo

president trump: we do a lot. another administration, like the kavanaugh victory -- it is a victory for the people, not for me. a lot of people would celebrate. we go back to business the next day. nikki and i talked about this a year ago and she really wanted to be here for about two years. we finished a big week last week at the u.n. with a tremendous success. nikki is going to be involved with us for a long time and she is going to help me also make that final pick. i want to get somebody really good. i think she has also brought a new level of prestige to that position. that position is in terms of people want it, easier now than it was before. nicky has brought great confidence and prestige to that position. >> [inaudible] president trump: that is a very good question. how do you keep your base energized now that you have the big kavanaugh victory? i would say just by winning, have to keep winning. we are doing a lot of winning. we are very happy with the u.s. embassy -- i don't want to use the word nafta bec

trump, trump's been a white nationalist from the beginning. the fact that he just announced it to the world or a huge rally is just indicative of how much his appeal has really shrunk in the two years that he's been in office. he was able to dance around the margins for a long time by claiming, well, you know, i'm a progressive, or i'm this or that. he danced around it. but now he knows, my core constituency, the only future this presidency has, is to be an explicit white nationalist and say, it is us, this small 26% of the u.s. population that wanted him against everybody else in america who actually wants a fundamental future that we can all benefit from. i'm happy that he's being this honest because i think this is the beginning of the end of him having any sort of appeal outside of the maniacs who want to listen to him in that room. >> i think we can all agree donald trump is the most ignorant president in history, but today he used ignorance as a defense in an answer to a question. and for the first time, i actually have doubts about whet

although the trump organization vowed not to pursue new foreign ventures while trump is in office. there's wide overlap between his business interests and the international relationships he must navigate as president. a chinese government owned bank runs a twentieth floor of trump tower in new york city at a trump property adjacent to the un saudi arabia and india own apartments. the new unit there is this year. from post foreign dignitaries at mar-a lago his private club where membership rates doubled after his election his companies have been granted approval for trademarks in china even as the president negotiated trade policy with its leader so far i have got nothing absolutely nothing but the potential conflicts of interest are many and they've raised charges that trump is violating the us constitution and the new. charges are laid out in several lawsuits one of which is now focused on the trumpeted national we decided last year because it was a violation of this country's oldest anti-corruption law and that is the emoluments clauses both foreign and domestic. we would like a

trump supporters. the president hasd voi alarms of a group of 7,000 migrants traving from central ameri to the u.s. border. president trump: you're going to finds-, middle easterns. and we're not allowing them in our country. robert: mr. trump has not produced evidence of these claims. yet, the administration k continues to bim up ahead of the mid terms. >> after a number of people did put their own credibility on the line and backed him up, he told reporters, you're right, i have no proof. but the could be proof. and that's because the president has realized that fea mongering and these scare tactics do work. one notable difference is that unlike in 2016 when his own party the republicans were conflicted whether this was a od strategy or not you have a lot more republicans falling in line in part because the president won in 2016. thatne kiedis tinks. ane second thing it's not just the president'sage because he is the president and he has the federal bureaucracy at his. dispos he can do things like we

apartments even a case of buying a trump yacht they also mention as well that trump himself boasted back in or with twenty fifteen selling his apartments to saudis for forty fifty million dollars he said the letters also being sent to trump's sons they are executive vice presidents of the trump organization so this is a very serious step made by the democrats donald trump himself well yesterday he tweeted i have no business ties in saudi arabia he's likely to brush the soft as far as the letter is concerned from the democrats he can probably go ahead and do that but in the light of the magnitsky act which is actual legislation which is a bipartisan call from the senate that's a lot more difficult to just brush away mike hanna thank you very much indeed germany's foreign minister has joined the western edge in saudi arabia to cooperate saying attacks on journalists are not acceptable and he's called for an immediate explanation from riyadh. for use in this case is and remains extremely worrying the current take is ations a serious and one has to say disturbing therefore of clearly ex

they bought an entire floor of trump world. the trump world plaza. for their mission at the united nations. more recently, they have been patronizing the hotels. and all of this reflects back on this issue that still dogs the trump administration, are they making good public policy, or are they doing things that pad their wallets? and that raises of course the specter of jared kushner, who has been trump's lead ambassador, essentially, to the middle east, and especially to saudi arabia. there has been speculation as to whether the people who were put in the hotel and imprisoned by the crown prince, if he got those names from u.s. intelligence sources that jared kushner passed along to him. what was kushner's goal in doing that? kushner at the time that he was lobbying both sources of money in the middle east, china, and russia, was desperately trying to bail out a skyscraper that the family was in debt for on fifth avenue. trump himself would be very hard-pressed to locate most middle eastern nations on a map. they have been full bore on saudi arabia